Fraissinet-de-Lozère (; ) is a former commune in the

Lozère Lozère (; ) is a landlocked Departments of France, department in the Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie in Southern France, located near the Massif Central, bounded to the northeast by Haute-Loire, to the ...

department in southern

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. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Pont-de-Montvert-Sud-Mont-Lozère. Its population was 192 in 2019.

History

Fraissinet-de-Lozère was one of the earliest communities of

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s in France. After the revocation of the

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in 1685 by the

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, several people from Fraissinet-de-Lozère fled to England or the Dutch Republic. They kept in touch with their family, though, even during the

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(1688-1697). They managed to maintain networks, so that people, money and information would come and go from

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to the

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. An account of the

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(1692) elaborated by Dutch propaganda, very critical against

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, was thus sent and kept by the main characters of the Rouvière family, one of the most powerful groups of the village. This could mean that "newly converted" did not plainly support their king. During the War of the Camisards, it was very close to the birthplace of the revolt, the village of

Le Pont-de-Montvert Le Pont-de-Montvert (; ) is a former commune in the Lozère département in southern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Pont-de-Montvert-Sud-Mont-Lozère. It is located in the heart of the Parc National des Céve ...

. Nevertheless, the village remained loyal to the king, though it received no special treatment, and was burned down by the troops as other Protestant villages of the Cévennes in 1703.Ghislain Baury, ''La dynastie Rouvière de Fraissinet-de-Lozère. Les élites villageoises dans les Cévennes protestantes d'après un fonds d'archives inédit (1403-1908)'', t. 1: ''La chronique'', t. 2: ''L'inventaire'', Sète, Les Nouvelles Presses du Languedoc, 2011, http://sites.google.com/site/dynastierouviere/

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History

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